[2017-03-18] Community Reacts to Bitcoin Unlimited Bug, Calls For SegWit Activation

[LiteCoinGuy]

Community Reacts to Bitcoin Unlimited Bug, Calls For SegWit Activation

On March 15, Bitcoin Unlimited suffered from an attack that led to a 6-hour downtime for miners and node operators. Miners lost over $200,000 in revenue and nodes crashed, bringing the node count of Bitcoin Unlimited down from 800 to roughly 300.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/communit ... activation

[damage-dave]

I have some questions that I hope the crypto-sphere can help me with:

If miners are aware that the current version of BU recently crashed and has potential security issues within the code, why would they continue to run it?

Which type of mining rig is used while running BU, ASIC or GPU based?

If SegWit was adopted which miners / rigs would see the most immediate advantage?

Is it true that BU is approx 1-yr behind current dev version of the blockchain?

Thanks in advance for any enlightenment.